Tent Talk, the farmers market podcast

Whether you’re a farmers market manager, a farmer or food maker selling at farmers markets, a policy maker or market supplier, Tent Talk is the podcast for you!

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How to listen to Tent Talk

Stream our most recent episodes below or find Tent Talk wherever you regularly get your podcasts. With a new episode every Monday, Tent Talk brings you new farmers market knowledge on a weekly basis. There is so much that goes into farmers markets, and so many interesting people involved, we will never run out of material! 

 
 

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Episode 314: Peter Henry: Easing Farmers' Labor Pains

Episode 314: Peter Henry: Easing Farmers' Labor Pains

While working for a cheese maker at New York City farmers markets, Peter Henry started thinking about ways producers could expand their reach and increase efficiencies. Now, Ten by Ten Logistics serves more than a dozen farmers at markets throughout New York. Listen in to hear what kinds of coordination help farmers sell at more markets and still have time to farm. 

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Episode 311: Every Week or Once a Year : Patricia and Brett Keller on Event Management Skills 

Episode 311: Every Week or Once a Year : Patricia and Brett Keller on Event Management Skills 

Managing a farmers market is just like managing a craft fair or fall festival, right? Yes. And no. There are similarities and there are big differences between coordinating vendors on a weekly basis and once a year. When experienced annual event managers Patricia and Brett Keller took over a local farmers market after the sudden departure of its founding manager, they learned a few things.

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Episode 310: Transforming Communities: The Power and Potential of Farmers Markets with Catt Fields-White

Episode 310: Transforming Communities: The Power and Potential of Farmers Markets with Catt Fields-White

This week we're sharing something a little bit different: a podcast episode where Catt Fields White is the featured guest. Enjoy this conversation from the Fresh Taste podcast about the importance of supporting local farmers, small businesses and of course farmers' markets.

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Episode 308: Ashley Colpaart: Prepping Partnership: Farmers Markets and Shared Kitchens

Episode 308: Ashley Colpaart: Prepping Partnership: Farmers Markets and Shared Kitchens

When The Food Corridor offered a Shared Kitchen-101 workshop at the 2023 InTents Conference, it was a sell out. It's no wonder. In a survey of food businesses operating out of shared kitchens, farmers markets were the most commonly used sales channels, with over 50% responding that they sell at one or more farmers markets.

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Episode 284: Moving Your Market

Episode 284: Moving Your Market

Moving a market is not as simple as scooting a tent or two down the street (not that scooting any tents is without drama.) Sometimes you lose part of your site to a construction project, sometimes a conflicting annual event happens and you have to move the entire market for a day. Finding a new site that can accommodate an established event is a puzzle.

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Episode 283: Best of Tent Talk: Application Excavation

Episode 283: Best of Tent Talk: Application Excavation

Are you a farmer or small food business trying to navigate finding spaces to sell at farmers markets? Are you a farmers market manager buried in application emails and trying to find the perfect needles in that haystack? In this episode we're chatting about how we process applications for our markets and approaches used by some of our fellow market managers.

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